Qin Feng sheathed his sword and stood in the sky, waving to his female master as he spoke. The years had left no trace on her face.
She looked exactly as she had when they parted over a hundred thousand years ago, still so beautiful she practically sparkled!
At those words, Fairy Azure Moon's smiling face instantly stiffened. She had been delighted to reunite with this disciple she had not seen for over a hundred thousand years.
But who could have known that after all that time apart, the brat's very first words would get under her skin? Fairy Azure Moon snorted, flew right up to Qin Feng, and flicked him on the forehead.
"You little brat. After over a hundred thousand years without seeing your master, I thought you might have changed. Yet the moment we meet, you're up to your old tricks." Fairy Azure Moon smiled as she spoke.
Although her own disciple had teased her, for some reason, she simply could not get angry.
After over a hundred thousand years apart, the brat had already cultivated to the Extreme Dao Supreme Realm and was close to becoming a True Immortal.
Such talent would mark him as a peerless prodigy, whether in the Primeval Ancient Realm or the Immortal Domain.
What surprised her even more was that he could defy the divide between realms, slaying undying-level beings with strength at the very pinnacle of the human dao.
The gulf between a True Immortal and the human dao domain was immense, utterly impossible to cross.
"Haha, I just got a little excited when I saw you, Master!" Qin Feng said with a chuckle.
"Hmph, I don't think you spared me a single thought. Otherwise-"
"You wouldn't have stayed in the Immortal Domain for so many years, or failed to come find me even after becoming an Extreme Dao Supreme," Fairy Azure Moon said with a snort.
Although he was only a nominal disciple, he had still come from their Yin-Yang Crossroads Forbidden Zone, and she had kept an eye on him.
When the brat underwent his supreme tribulation, she had made a special trip there, hiding in the shadows to deter several old fellows who wanted to sabotage Qin Feng's attainment of the dao.
Back then, the brat had indeed kept a very low profile, but his methods were ruthless. He had seized plenty of treasures and killed quite a few prodigies of his generation.
Naturally, he had offended some old monsters. Although he had found a very safe place to undergo his tribulation, he had still been discovered. Had she not been hiding nearby, the brat would have been schemed to death during his tribulation.
She had thought this disciple would come to the forbidden zone to find her once he stabilized his cultivation. Then she could formally accept him as her disciple and introduce him to her own master.
In her eyes, this disciple was not much worse than his several predecessors and was entirely qualified to become the ninth.
Who would have thought that after a few hundred years, once the brat stabilized his cultivation, he would slip into the Immortal Domain without a word? It left her rather bewildered.
What was going on? Wasn't the Primeval Ancient Realm good enough? Why had the brat run off?
But upon reflection, she found it understandable. After all, plenty of prodigies went to the Immortal Domain to temper themselves after reaching the supreme realm.
It was only reasonable for this disciple she had picked up to have the same idea. In any case, someone at the supreme realm could live for several million years.
With the brat's talent, he would surely become a True Immortal. There would still be time to reunite after he returned from the Immortal Domain.
Yet she had never expected that wait to last over a hundred thousand years. Recently, news of this disciple she had picked up finally reached her: the brat had actually joined the Immortal Domain's reinforcement army and come to aid the Primeval Ancient Realm.
Fairy Azure Moon was quite touched when she heard the news. At least the brat had some conscience left. Knowing his homeland was in trouble, he had immediately returned to help.
Then news of Qin Feng's impressive battle record spread. First, he had lurked on the battlefield, ambushing Supreme-level figures. Next, he had killed an Extreme Dao Supreme, and then severely wounded an Undying One.
Upon learning of her disciple's astonishing feats, Fairy Azure Moon had rushed over at once to rescue him.
That was because the Undying One had released a piece of news: he had only been wounded because Qin Feng was undergoing a creation tribulation at the time.
Qin Feng had shamelessly redirected the final blade of Heaven's Will from that creation tribulation onto him, which was what had grievously wounded him.
Creating a cultivation method was not something just anyone could do. Even Immortal King-level experts would not dare claim they could establish a new cultivation system.
As a disciple of the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, she had once heard her master say that when the Immortal Domain was first established, several veteran Immortal Kings had created the cultivation methods of Immortal Ancient.
In the end, their bodies had radiated the golden light of emperors, something even he had failed to achieve back then.
After she reported this news to her master, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone immediately performed a divination. Yet he discerned nothing, sensing only a sea of chaos.
Thus, he immediately sent her to rescue the brat. No matter what, she had to keep him safe and bring him back. Perhaps this brat was the key to quelling the darkness of the Boundary Sea. (Let me explain here: when the Lord of the Forbidden Zone divines Qin Feng's fate, an Immortal Emperor can actually sense it, but the Immortal Emperor won't interfere. There is karma involved, which will be explained later in the story.
I've noticed that whenever I plant some foreshadowing, some people start flaming me. The funniest ones say I don't know the source material.
I fucking followed all three books of the trilogy to the end. I read the Red-Haired Old Monster's first book, the one starring Dugu Baitian, then Tomb of the Gods, then the Coffin Trilogy.
The funniest complaints are about power scaling. The power scaling the Red-Haired Old Monster devised has been flamed to oblivion by his own readers.
Back then, the original ending of Kidney Deficiency was completely different from the current one. That ending left many readers who had followed the serialization deeply dissatisfied.
Since I wrote this little passage, there will be three updates today, all free. A heads-up: I'll put the book behind a paywall at around 120,000 to 130,000 words, and then I'll write ten thousand words a day.)
"Master, you can't blame me for this. You never told me your title back then. Where was I supposed to find you?
"I was a stranger in the Ancient Realm, unfamiliar with everyone and everything, and a bunch of old fellows were hunting me down. I could only flee to the Immortal Domain," Qin Feng said with a shrug.
If I'd known back then that I had such a powerful backer, I would have gone straight to you. You wouldn't have needed to tell me!
"Didn't I tell you my name? The cultivation method I taught you, the Nameless Sword Art, and the distinctive features of my clothing and headwear-didn't you investigate any of them?" Fairy Azure Moon asked, sounding slightly displeased.
"It never occurred to me. After all, I was too weak back then. I thought you were a Supreme, just like me." Qin Feng chuckled.
"All right, stop clowning around. It isn't safe here. I came to take you back. Come with me to meet my master, your grandmaster," Fairy Azure Moon said.
The most important thing now was to take the brat away and help him escape this great calamity. With the Immortal Domain intervening, this war would soon be over.
Just as Qin Feng was about to speak, a rift suddenly tore open in the sky, and a man appeared, clad in golden armor and holding a Fangtian Halberd.
The aura radiating from this man marked him as a Quasi-Immortal King.
"You aren't going anywhere."